This guy Clubber Lang, I’ve been him all my life. He’s mean and hungry just like me.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

I always make my dreams into goals.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

I’ve always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

The only way round is through.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

If they let people go fight jiu-jitsu tournaments, they can’t stop me going to fight a boxing fight.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.